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Susumu Yokota :: Acid Mt. Fuji 赤富士

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Originally released in 1994, and reissued last year via the Berlin-based Midgar Records, Acid Mt. Fuji marked the debut lp of the late Japanese producer Susumu Yokota. Atmospheric and awash in a myriad of electronic, ambient, textures, the record more than earns its title. Buoyed by an atypical amalgam of numinous field recordings, drones, drum machines, and samples, Fuji's hour and 14 minute runtime is very much indeed a trip . . .

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Transmissions Podcast: Year In Review 2018/A Charlie Brown Christmas

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Welcome to the December edition of the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions podcast. We just published our massive and overstuffed Year in Review feature, and to celebrate, members of the AD crew hooked up to discuss the year in music and more . . .

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Marc Bolan :: T. Rexmas

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We’re not sure who the mysterious folks behind the Bolan Boogie Bandcamp are, and even less sure how we missed the 4-track T.Rexmas! EP they uploaded last December, but here it is.

T.Rexmas! is mainly built around the stomping woulda-been hit “Christmas Bop,” recorded in 1975 for an aborted single that would have been paired with “Telegram Sam” and “Metal Guru . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Radio Holiday Nog Spectacular

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Go ahead and dip heavily into that Charles Mingus eggnog. It's the holidays, you'll need it. Tonight, suit up, it's Aquarium Drunkard's annual seasonal spectacular . . .

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Phosphorescent :: House of Cards

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One of our favorite releases of 2018, on C'est La Vie Matthew Houck returned to the path he set out 18 years ago as Phosphorescent. In the five years that lapsed between his previous record, Houck married his lover and bandmate Jo Schornikow, left Brooklyn/moved to Nashville and started a family. But wait. Far from defanged, the new material finds the artist in peak form, world building and . . .

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Christmas Jambree :: A Vintage Jamaican Yuletide Mixtape

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Yuletide sails into Jamaica each year on what the locals call the Christmas Breeze, a slightly crisper air that tends to waft through the island come December. There’s another seasonal harbinger, one that is more common around the world, and that’s the sound of Christmas songs on the radio. But Christmas music in Jamaica is, well, uniquely Jamaican. Traditional carols get a reggae underpinning while lyrics about snow and holly are usually substituted for sunshine and mango trees. Back in the day, it was hardly a given that every Jamaican artist would record a Christmas song, unlike today . . .

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Jacques Loubelo :: Ngando

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Spike your egg nog with a dose of this and submerge. Nestled at the end of a compilation of bombastic and grand dance-floor boogies from the Ivory Coast, Jacques Loubelo’s “Ngando” closes out Nouvelle Ambiance !!! with a downtempo, analog-synth ballad that cloths its 80’s proto-electronic leanings with a nocturnal air of mysterious cool and subtle immediacy. Layered in an analog soul echo that feels lost and somewhere out of reach, the lean gothic production and vocal distortions enrich . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: KPM – Be With Records Is The Selector

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Following two years of intense work producing 11 KPM platters, we asked Be With founder, Rob Butler, to get creative with the cream of the catalog for this exclusive Aquarium Drunkard mix.

Cut live in one take, using all vinyl at Be With’s Manchester HQ . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35)

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Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard every Wednesday at 7pm PST or grip it on-demand via the SIRIUS/XM app.

Two hours exploring our 2018 Year In Review . . .

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Aquarium Drunkard :: 2018 Year In Review

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Here it is. Our obligatory year-end review. The following is an unranked list of albums that caught, and kept, our attention in 2018. Let it blurb. – AD . . .

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Maurice Louca :: The Leper

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Like his occasional collaborator, Alan Bishop's Sun City Girls, Egyptian composer Maurice Louca synthesizes sounds from all across the globe: the American and British rock he internationalized as a youth, electronic music, free jazz, avant-garde, and shaabi, or "of the people" Egyptian pop music . . .

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Unusual Sounds :: The Hidden History of Library Music

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The tunes here are glorious hybrids, where swooping strings meet superbly psychedelic fuzz guitars, where new age bliss blends with impossibly funky rhythm sections . . .

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Neil Young :: Songs for Judy

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Even if bootleg hunters already know this stuff backward and forward, Songs For Judy is an essential addition to the official canon. It captures Young in brilliantly loose form, rambling but righteous, a fine companion to Neil’s other recent solo acoustic ’76 vault release, Hitchhiker. An artist at his peak. Or at least one of his peaks, anyway . . .

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A Christmas Gift For You…From Phil Spector

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With his trademark Wall of Sound, Spector's curated mix of holiday tunes pushes the limits of Christmas music—whether it’s tweaking the lyrics of “White Christmas” or writing his own in "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)". Spector, a Jew born on Christmas day, did what few were, or are, capable of doing. He made the largesse—both genuine and contrived—of Christmas even bigger . . .

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The Rolling Stones in 1969 :: Beyond Baroque

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Angelenos: Thursday, December 13, at Beyond Baroque in Venice, noted author, music historian, and friend of Aquarium Drunkard Pat Thomas will host a live Q&A discussion with Ronnie Schneider, manager of the Rolling Stones’ mythic 1969 tour — documented the classic film Gimme Shelter—about his new book Out Of Our Heads: Rolling Stones, Beatles and Me. Schneider’s career dispenses with the “Beatles or Stones” binary; he worked extensively with both . . .

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